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But Washington is nowhere near the top-rated states for driving as assessed by Carinsurance.com and noted in a release this week. Data came from public and private agencies, including the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Insurance Information Institute

Utah took the top spot, followed by Minnesota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Vermont and so on down the list. California, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wisconsin and Mississippi were parked at the bottom.

Washington took 42nd place when graded by a series of criteria including:

Number of traffic fatalities per 100,000 population: 6.5, which is pretty good. It’s 6.6 in Minnesota, which placed second in the all-state survey.

Percentage of roads in poor or mediocre condition: 67 percent against 25 percent in Utah. You’ll need to go down the list to Illinois, at No. 31 with 73 percent, to find any state worse than Washington.